Brave is a free and open-source web browser developed by Brave Software, Inc. based on the Chromium web browser.Brave Browser, the privacy-focused web browser, announced today that it grew in usage by over 130% in its first year of the release of its ‘Stable’ version.Brave has been released for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS.
Features of Brave Browser
Block data-grabbing ads and trackers:The vast bulk of websites and ads include software that tries to identify you. They want to track your every move across the web. Brave blocks all this, allowing you to browse freely.
Blocking harmful ads and trackers means a faster Internet:Brave loads major news sites up to six times faster than Chrome, Safari and Firefox on mobile and desktop.
Browse much more privately with Tor*:Other browsers claim to have a “private mode,” but this only hides your history from others using your browser. Brave lets you use Tor right in a tab. Tor not only hides your history, it masks your location from the sites you visit by routing your browsing through several servers before it reaches your destination. These connections are encrypted to increase anonymity.
*Available on desktop, coming soon to mobile:
Over the past year, Brave Browser saw an incredible 130% growth to reach 20.5 million monthly active users (MAU) and 8.7 daily active users (DAU) as of November 2020.While Google Chrome still owns 69% of the browser market share, other browsers such as Firefox, Brave, and Microsoft Edge are slowly chipping away at Chrome’s share as they introduce new features or increased privacy.
Brave attributes its growth to end user’s increasing frustration with the lack of privacy seen in more established browsers and a new advertising ecosystem that allows users to take control of how they browse the web.
